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<strong>Why</strong> <strong>Does</strong> <strong>Damn</strong> <strong>Small</strong> <strong>Linux</strong><strong>Rock</strong>?Four (and more)Reasons to Use<strong>Damn</strong> <strong>Small</strong> <strong>Linux</strong>
What is <strong>Damn</strong> <strong>Small</strong> <strong>Linux</strong> (aka DSL)?• Fully useable desktop that is small and fast• Mobile• Extensible• Secure• Contains a wealth of utilities and programs toget work done.• A CREDIT CARD SIZED LiveCD (50mb)
DSL is <strong>Damn</strong> <strong>Small</strong> and <strong>Damn</strong> Fast• Shipping by default with Keith Packard’skdrive and fluxbox, no resources are wasted.• Also ships with everything needed for acomplete office workstation: Firefox for web,Sylpheed for email and FLwriter for wordprocessing.• The whole system can be loaded to ram inas little as 128Mb, making the systembleeding fast.
DSL is mobile.• Created, from the ground up, as aLiveCD/USB key distribution. Take your dataand your desktop with you.• Save your settings to a USB key withencryption, or to a remote FTP, ensuring thatyour sensitive data is safe.• Optionally, you can HD install it for a installedoperating system.
DSL is extensible.• Very modular architecture, making it possibleto make your DSL install as lean or asbloated as you want it.• myDSLs can be stored on your harddrive, aUSB key or directly on your CD and areloaded dynamically and automatically intoyour system on boot.• Based on Debian, so anything you can getvia apt is also very easily installed.
DSL is secure.• It’s a <strong>Linux</strong> distribution, so its security isinherently decent – I use decent lightly. BSD• It’s also LiveCD/USB Key distro – meaningthat a malevolent user will not be able to getyour data unless they get your key.• DSL 1.0 will feature security and redundancyenhancements such as encryption on USBkeys and saving settings to a remote FTPinstead of a simple USB key backup.
Making your own distribution• DSL comes with everything you need tomake your own customISO remaster of itself.• All of this can be done in RAM.• The process is relatively simple, it is used bymany NPOs to deliver affordable computingsolutions to needy families and under fundedschool systems.• Using myDSL package system is simple.
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Derivatives of DSL• These distro’s may or may not give credit to DSL, butit is known that they use our code/scripts/base.• Feather <strong>Linux</strong> (Lightweight <strong>Linux</strong> Desktop)• Dyne::bolic (Full Multimedia Distribution)• Flonix• A Port of DSL to the XBOX• More extensive list to follow --
Imitators…Pilot <strong>Linux</strong>BonzaiBloody StupidLocal Area SecurityInsertdistccKNOPPIXDanish DSLAFROS (Atari Running on Any Machine) Live CDbootable Counter-Strike serverLuit <strong>Linux</strong> 65 MB, XFCE and ROXFileLamppix <strong>Linux</strong>, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PerlXAMPP <strong>Linux</strong>, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PerlEchelon <strong>Linux</strong> network services monitoringChristian <strong>Linux</strong> Live CDHikarunix is dedicated to the ancient game of Go.Pud <strong>Linux</strong> looks to be a very nice Chinese language derivativeDSL XBOX x-dsl.orgKioskCDELE -- focus on privacy related softwareFolding@Home Server
DSL’s popularity• <strong>Damn</strong> <strong>Small</strong> <strong>Linux</strong> has been in the Top 10continuously on DistroWatch for the past fewmonths, beating several mainstream distros.• Recent enhancements have made it muchmore popular and useful.• DSL continues to be the innovative LiveCDsolution for users looking for a minimal butnot feature lacking distribution.
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